Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

As countless educators around the world have scrambled to figure out how to deliver lessons remotely with whisker-thin budgets, many turned to open education resources (OER). Her mission has been constant: Give students and teachers high-quality, free resources that can help each learn in their own way.

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OER EdTech Exercises Resources 214

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

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OER How To Common Core Instructional Materials 96

Digital Promise

MAY 17, 2017

How do we ensure equitable access to excellent learning opportunities? The district is also a leader in the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, championing teacher-created content and sharing resources widely. How do we sustain a culture of innovation that improves student outcomes we care about?

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OER Outcomes Meeting Survey 217

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 4, 2024

Many institutions charge students a fee associated with their OER courses as a way of funding the institutions’ OER efforts. For example, Kansas State University’s Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative course fee is a $10 fee that is payed by students in courses that use OER and other free, traditionally copyrighted resources.

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OER Advocacy Policies Course 79

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Now is especially the time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? They also can be integrated into the online and blended learning environment.

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Blended Learning Learning LMS STEM 180

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Jess Mitchell, senior manager of research and design at the Inclusive Design Research Centre , posed the question on Wednesday to a group of around 850 educators, librarians and other open-access enthusiasts at Lumen Learning’s OpenEd conference in Niagara Falls, NY. Nothing is neutral.

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OER Conference Groups Outcomes 131

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. Booking Info – Time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have done 100?s

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Study Classroom OER Education 166

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. To answer this question, I have to examine my own experience with OER and its advocates. Therefore, I had the simple mission of writing an openly-licensed textbook that not only addressed my students’ learning needs, but would be accessible to anyone.

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OER Education Policies Survey 136

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. If OER adoption were to become widespread among the majority of faculty, it became clear that someone would need to do something more than create OER, post it on a website, and give conference talks about it. Background and Some Problems.

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OER LMS Learning Sakai 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? FETC 2019 – How does Orlando in January sound for an educational conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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STEM Resources Learning Conference 162

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. Now, make no mistake – OER is a means, not an end. Unless there’s a shorter one.

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OER Course Company Smartphone 84

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

I look forward to learning from you! If you are at the conference, feel free to look me up with a PM at Twitter ( @mjgormans ) or email (mjgormans@gmail.com). I would love to talk with you about amazing PD I can provide at your school or conference this year! Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free.

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STEM Resources OER Conference 207

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Several years ago I was speaking about OER at a conference in Virginia. There was a great feeling in the room, and though I hadn’t planned to speak about the topic, I felt prompted to end my remarks by stating that enough OER now existed that an entire degree program could be run on OER.

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OER Conference Outcomes System 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? FETC 2019 – How does Orlando in January sound for an educational conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

How will artificial intelligence and machine learning change teaching? It’s a question that some higher education instructors have asked before, and one that two Penn State University educators sought to answer on Wednesday at this year’s EDUCAUSE conference in Denver. Artificial intelligence can play a role in that, too.

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Robotics OER Industry Education 164

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We are always excited to invite new districts that are implementing new teaching and learning practices into the League. 10 Education Conferences. We shared the League’s and EdClusters’ work and provided opportunities to showcase our member school districts at 10 Education conferences. Planning a Social Network Analysis.

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Data Conference Assessment OER 197

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? FETC 2019 – How does Orlando in January sound for an educational conference? Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free.

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STEM Resources Classroom OER 164

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Back in February, an EdWeek Market brief reported that Amazon Education was starting to beta-test a new platform with educators, helping teachers navigate the jungles of open educational resources (or OERs, for short). Well, that platform— Amazon Inspire —has officially launched today in tandem with the ISTE conference in Denver, Colorado.

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OER Resources Education Software 114

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2017

She’s just made the jump from provost to a senior academic innovation fellow, tasked with looking to big new ideas in learning and experimental efforts in both teaching and student success. But we have to actually change the experience of learning. This conference attracts plenty of venture capitalists and companies in education.

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OER Course Learning Analytics Company 129

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

I have some great posts coming your way involving PBL, STEM, tech integration, and a continuing series on Professional Learning Communities! Also, remember that I can come to your conference or school district and provide engaging authentic and purposeful professional development. I have my own pre-conference master class.

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Resources OER Learning STEM 105

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 30, 2017

In a recent webinar about OER, organized by one of the major textbook publishers, there was a lot of conversation about whether OER are “free” or “affordable.” Before I begin though, just to be clear, allow me to reaffirm that OER are free, plain and simple, full stop, period. OER = free + permissions.

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OER LMS Analysis Outcomes 102

ProfHacker

APRIL 26, 2017

If you are in the field of open and networked learning, you are likely going through a process of exploring the place of open philosophies and networked/participatory practices in the current political environment, and deciding where your place is in all of this. Also a good conference location for families.

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OER Learning Conference MOOC 85

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

I heard this question six years ago after it was raised at a major publishing conference. Those in the puppy camp argued, with good reason, that free curricula and OER content were hardly free once the related costs and risks were factored in. Is free curriculum content like a free beer or a free puppy?

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OER EdTech Company Common Core 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Some professors have aesthetic objections to OER materials. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Because most U.S.

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Industry OER Course Company 118

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

Also remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. I especially appreciated the following quote, “On his blog, Gorman shares what he has learned with a focus on how tech enables project-based learning.” Mike Gorman ( [link] / ).

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Two months ago I invited people to respond to a survey regarding the Open Education Conference and how it can be improved. I promised to share with the community what I learned from the surveys and interviews. The conference is expensive. Potentially create a conference track focused on first-timers.

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Survey Conference OER Data 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. Be on the look out for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. Check out my Booking Page.

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OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

ProfHacker

AUGUST 26, 2016

This post is co-authored with Suzan Koseoglu ( @suzankoseoglu ) who is an academic developer at the Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre at Goldsmiths, University of London. This post is based on a presentation Suzan and Maha gave this year at the OER16 conference in Edinburgh. You can read it here ! Slideshare available here.

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OER MOOC Conference Advocacy 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Welcome to this seventh post in a series that promotes PBL and 21st Century Learning through the examination of Seven Building Blocks. Also, remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. Check out my Booking Page and as always… thanks so much!

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Assessment Conference Learning E-rate 99

ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

There has been no shortage of critiques of the open textbook focus at The Open Education Conference #OpenEd15 – I wasn’t at the conference but I followed the Twitter stream and participated in three virtually connecting sessions in which I met both pairs of keynote speakers. — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) November 19, 2015.

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OER Wiki Conference Advocacy 40

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). If you make it too expensive, colleges are going to look harder at OER,” she said. Who Owns Student Data?

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Pearson OER Course Accessibility 147

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

The ISTE conference isn’t the biggest edtech conference in the world by sheer luck. Back in February, an EdWeek brief reported that Amazon Education was beta-testing a new platform with educators, helping teachers navigate the jungles of open educational resources (OER). See two sides of the argument here and here.).

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Microsoft OER Digital Citizenship EdTech 114

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. The discussion was energized by an announcement made by Cengage immediately ahead of the conference, but this is a conversation that has been percolating for a while now. The first has to do with capacity.

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OER LMS Learning Moodle 60

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2018

As the title of the document makes explicit, the framework aims to contribute to the conversation about the sustainability of OER: “Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship” It’s a valuable contribution to that conversation. I struggle to see how this will be possible.

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OER Company Pearson Resources 74

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Barajas-Murphy says that Educause is already starting the planning for the 2019 Horizon Report for higher education, which is scheduled for release in February, at the group’s ELI conference. Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example. Big miss.)

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Report OER Trends Industry 85

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Digital Learning Innovation Awards (DLIAwards) from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) last November. Fulé and her colleague Don Carter, the university’s director of e-learning, launched the. Nori Barajas-Murphy, Online Learning Consortium Ours is a culture that prizes prizes—Pulitzers and Pritzkers and Nobels of all stripes.

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Tools Flipped Classroom Outcomes E-rate 128

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

For instance, Kasey Bell generously shared her own resource-packed presentations on her Shake Up Learning Blog prior to the conference. I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. Here are our slides.

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Social Media Libraries Conference OER 105